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Former TV talk-show host Montel Williams was on CNN the other day discussing the Senate torture report and ... Wait. What? Montel Williams, ubiquitous pitchman for payday loans, compression sleeves and blenders, was on a national news program discussing the CIA's controversial "enhanced interrogation" program? Actually, yes. CNN sought out Williams for comment after the report's release, thereby according him equal time with senators, foreign-policy experts and human rights activists. By way of credentials, CNN host Brooke Baldwin noted that Williams, a former naval officer, "minored in international security studies" in college. Why Williams, of all...

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Former TV talk-show host Montel Williams was on CNN the other day discussing the Senate torture report and ...
Wait. What? Montel Williams, ubiquitous pitchman for payday loans, compression sleeves and blenders, was on a national news program...

A New Jersey boy who went to bed last month in seemingly good health and died in his sleep is the first fatality linked directly to a strain of enterovirus that has infected more than 500 people, CNN reported, citing a local medical official.
The...

In the 1992 presidential campaign, President George H.W. Bush made a memorable gaffe. While speaking to a group of workers in New Hampshire, he read aloud a cue in his speech that writers had intended as an emotive stage instruction:
"Message: I...

The survivalist accused of gunning down two Pennsylvania State Police troopers left a handwritten letter detailing the ambush and his escape, CNN reported on Monday.The letter, believed to be written by 31-year-old suspect Eric Matthew Frein, was found...

U.S. government officials repeatedly told James Foley's relatives they could not raise ransom money to secure the journalist's release after he was kidnapped in Syria, Foley's mother said in a CNN interview aired Thursday night.
Foley, a freelance...

CNN’s “Chicagoland” documentary series, which starts airing Thursday, is accompanied online by photos of the city through the years.
But the first photo in the cnn.com gallery seemed a little suspicious, and CNN took down the image Wednesday after...

Pennsylvania officials sought a motive on Thursday for a stabbing rampage at a high school where a 16-year-old student was accused of wielding two knives and wounding nearly two dozen people.
The attacker stalked through Franklin Regional...

And so it begins, with the voice of our mayor — "You want to see America you come to the heartland, and what is the capital of the heartland?" — and images of our city, the first of eight — that's right, eight — episodes of a very ambitious,...

If you like reading on your smartphones and tablets, here's some news that might make you flip.
Digital magazine Flipboard announced Wednesday that it is acquiring news reader application Zite from CNN and also partnering with the cable news network.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel had a highly visible evening Thursday, first talking big city politics with three other mayors and then appearing in living rooms across the country as the face of a new CNN documentary about Chicago.
At a University of Chicago...

"It's playoff time again in this sports-loving city," says narrator/co-writer Mark Konkol at the beginning of episode two of the eight-part CNN series "Chicagoland."
And though you will see all sorts of...

If it seemed as though some scenes of CNN's documentary series "Chicagoland" were coordinated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Hall and the show's producers, that's because they were.
More than 700 emails reviewed by the Tribune reveal that the...

A driver who told police he had smoked marijuana crashed his car into CNN headquarters in Atlanta early on Friday, causing damage but no injuries, police said. The driver, identified by police as Gerlmy Javon Todd, 22, had marijuana on him and said he'd...

Three American citizens detained in North Korea appealed on Monday to the U.S government for help returning home, speaking in rare interviews set up by the North Korean government. The three men, one serving a 15-year sentence and two awaiting trial in...

Here was Brian Stelter, host of CNN's media review program "Reliable Sources" closing his program Sunday: When I was at home Thursday night, sitting on the couch, channel surfing the way I do for news between NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, ...

Timothy W. Goodly, Ph.D., senior vice president of human resources for CNN Worldwide, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Inc., will be the featured speaker at the 19th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast hosted by Benedictine University and...

Evanston, Ill., (1 October 2013) — To commemorate the International Day of the Girl (celebrated on 10 October), Evanston-based Rotary International will screen the new film Girl Rising, a documentary on the lives and voices of nine unforgettable girls...